Water-motor.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WATER-MOTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1908.

Application filed October 9, 1907. Serial No. 396,651.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEWIS FOssEE and JOHN A. BALLARD, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Jeffersonville, in the county of Clark andState of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWater-Motors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention contemplates certain new and useful improvements in watermotors, the present embodiment being arranged to operate a ceiling fan.

The invention has for its object an improved construction of device ofthis character which may be cheaply made and easily installed and whichis composed of comparatively few and simple parts that will be durableand not liable to get out of order, and the invention consists incertain constructions and arrangement of the parts that we willhereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings, in which.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of one form or embodiment of ourinvention. Fig.

2 is a horizontal sectional view through the case.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

Referring to the drawings and now particularly to Fig. 1 wherein isillustrated our invention in simplest form, that is, with a singlemotor, numeral 1 designates the easing of the motor which is preferablypendent from the ceiling of a room being suspended from the hollowhanger 1 The casing 1 is formed with an annular chamber 2 in which aseries of preferably inclined blades 3 are mounted to travel, saidblades being carried on or formed integral with the water wheel or disk4 mounted within the casing to turn about a vertical axis. 5 designatestheshaft of said water wheel which extends downwardly and outwardly froma stuifing box 6 secured to or formed with a cap plate 6 designed to bescrewed or otherwise secured to the casing and preferably abuttingagainst the water wheel 1 so as to hold the same removably in place. Inorder to disassemble the parts it is only necessary to unscrew the capplate whereupon the water wheel may be readily detached. In the presentinarranged to drive a ceiling fan, 7 designating the paddles or bladesof the fan secured in any desired way to the shaft 5, as clearlyillustrated in the drawings.

sage 8 which enters the casing near the center thereof and which isprovided with a preferably flared mouth opening into the clrcle of theblades 3 so as to revolve the blades 3 and the casing is also formedwith an outlet passage 9 opening therefrom near the center and designedto allow the water to escape from the casing after having acted upon theblades 3 and revolve the disk 4, the pipes 8 and 9 leading to and fromthe respective inlet and outlet passages 8 and 9. These pipes extendthrough the hollow hanger 1 the pipe 8 being connected in any desiredway to the water main and the exhaust or outlet pipe 9 being connectedto another pipe after it has acted upon the motor.

Where a series of our water motors is em ployed, the arrangement is suchas that illustrated in Fig. 3 wherein it 'will be seen that the outletor exhaust pipe 12 of the first motor in the series constitutes theinlet pipe of the next motor and so on, so that after the water shallhave acted upon the wind wheel of the first motor it may be conveyed tothe next motor in the series and drive the wind wheel thereof, beforebeing permitted to es ea c into the sewer pipe.

rom the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawings it will and efficient construction of water motor which may bereadily installed and from which the water wheel may be removed bymerely unscrewing the cap plate 6 thereof to obtain access to theinterior of the casing for the purpose of repair or the like.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A water motor for the urpose described, comprising a endent ho lowhanger, inlet and outlet plpes extending through said hanger, a casingsecured at its center to said hanger and suspended thereby, said casingbeing formed with an annular downwardly opening chamber and with waterinlet and outlet passages communicating with said chamber, saidpassages, respectively opening into and out of the casing at the centerthereof and communicating respectively with the water inlet and outletpipes mounted in said be seen that we have provided a very simple stancewe. have illustrated our invention as y The casing 1 is formed with aninlet pashanger, a series of blades mounted in said In testimony whereofWe affix our signachamber, a disk to which said blades are seturesmpresenee of two Witnesses.

cured, a bottom cap plate secured detachably to said casing and closingthe said eharnf ber thereof, said plate supporting-the disk Within thecasing, and a driving shaft secured WVitnesses:

to said disk and extending out through the EDGAR D. HENDERSHOT,

cap plate. WILLIAM BERRY.

